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The risks of smoking are greatly exaggerated
TheRecord.com ^ | 20 November 2002 | ERIC BOYD

Posted on 11/26/2002 4:58:07 AM PST by SheLion

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To: metesky

With the quality of most restaurants and the yuppie scum take-over of most decent working mans' bars, it's barely worth going out anymore anyway.
Even places that tout themselves as top flite serve the same bland crap in only slightly variable phoney "atmosphere".

We could probably get a thread of it's own out of that.




Boy, you've got that right. I hardly go out any more for that very reason, and smoking's still legal in Ohio-until November.


401 posted on 03/23/2006 8:03:58 PM PST by The Foolkiller (BSXL* The year the NFL became irrelevant..)
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To: SheLion

To: A Vast RightWing Conspirator
After all, no one should deny other people's right to fart as much as they want. In the privacy of their home or in specially-designated public spaces, such as restrooms.
I'm a bit confused, my freedom loving fellow poster?

I owned a small, very popular, small restaurant. As luck would have it many of my patrons were politically correct, government employed, self aggrandizing, self righteous, non smoking, pseudo christian, busybody pigs. The restaurant was popular because the owner loved his business to the point of cooking much of the food himself. That same cook smoked. Every 60 to 90 minutes he paused to step out back for a quick smoke. Some of those self righteous pukes got wind of this practice. They proceeded to do the only proper, responsible, government response. They notified the local health department, they, intern, notified the owner cook. He was admonished for said activities, warned of the dire consequences, and directed to stop illegal activities.

The owner cook, sold the beautiful, small restaurant of 20 years, very quickly.

Presently he drinks and frolics, his former customers, smoking and non smoking, are searching for a beautiful, Epicurean delight they are likely not to find.

Welcome to America.
-Golder




That may have been the best post I've read on FR to do with the smoking issue by anyone other than yourself. You should save it.


402 posted on 03/23/2006 8:30:43 PM PST by The Foolkiller (BSXL* The year the NFL became irrelevant..)
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To: The Foolkiller
What may have been the best post I've read on FR to do with the smoking issue by anyone other than yourself. You should save it.

Pity, isn't it?!  The smoking bans are choking our nation's economy and so many businesses have folded...........and people lost jobs, or had hours cut back, all because of these asinine smoking bans.

Why don't people wake UP??!!

403 posted on 03/23/2006 8:49:06 PM PST by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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To: The Foolkiller
What may have been the best post I've read on FR to do with the smoking issue by anyone other than yourself. You should save it.

Pity, isn't it?!  The smoking bans are choking our nation's economy and so many businesses have folded...........and people lost jobs, or had hours cut back, all because of these asinine smoking bans.

Why don't people wake UP??!!

404 posted on 03/23/2006 8:49:09 PM PST by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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To: SheLion

Nervous mouse. hehe!


405 posted on 03/23/2006 8:50:26 PM PST by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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To: SheLion

HOLY CRAP!! I read this whole damned thing without noticing the date!! Thought it was a new one. Oh, well. 8^D


406 posted on 03/23/2006 8:50:35 PM PST by The Foolkiller (BSXL* The year the NFL became irrelevant..)
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To: The Foolkiller
HOLY CRAP!! I read this whole damned thing without noticing the date!! Thought it was a new one. Oh, well. 8^D

I fell off my seat as well.

Check post #378.  Why oh why lilmamma18 felt compelled to resurrect this thread is beyond me!  This is from 2002.  Can you believe it????

The information still holds true today, but my Gawd!  She needs to move ON!!!!!

407 posted on 03/23/2006 8:56:39 PM PST by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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To: SheLion

Actually, this thread was one of the best yet, sorry I missed it the first time around.


408 posted on 03/23/2006 8:56:44 PM PST by The Foolkiller (BSXL* The year the NFL became irrelevant..)
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To: lilmamma18

You are one angry lady !

Wow !


409 posted on 03/23/2006 9:06:51 PM PST by Mears (The Killer Queen-caviar and cigarettes.)
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To: Dr. Luv

So Dr. Luv. . .Tell me something. . . he quotes all these things about arsenic and other chemicals -- but in reality isn't there a difference between consuming these things and letting the body digest and purge them . . . as opposed to inhaling them where they sit in the lungs and, well turn them attractive shades of black?

I didn't really understand the blackness of a smoker's lungs until I went to the Body Worlds exhibit. www.bodyworlds.com

After seeing that, I can't imagine anyone putting a cigarette in their mouth.


410 posted on 03/23/2006 9:09:54 PM PST by twinzmommy
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To: ladyL

I found your post most interesting,especially the part where the doctor said that your situation was not uncommon.

I was a severely asthmatic child and started smoking at 17,the asthma left 3 years later,never to return.I am now 73 and still smoke.

Teddy Roosevelt's asthma was treated by smoking cigars and he had the best doctors in NY.

We have less smoking today and more asthma.

It's a mystery to me.


411 posted on 03/23/2006 9:13:24 PM PST by Mears (The Killer Queen-caviar and cigarettes.)
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To: SheLion

"If we continue down this dangerous path of control and prohibition based on an unreliable or remote chance of harm, how many personal freedoms will remain seven generations from now? "




This is the most pertinent paragraph in the entire article. I doubt if it will take seven generations though,we are on a very slippery slope.



412 posted on 03/23/2006 9:18:25 PM PST by Mears (The Killer Queen-caviar and cigarettes.)
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To: SheLion; lilmamma18
You think I oughta resurrect all the smoking threads from the Smokers' Lounge annual reviews I used to do?

That might give lilmammal something to do for a couple of months.

413 posted on 03/23/2006 9:44:28 PM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: SheLion

PING!!! Just a quick note that I am listening and appreciate you vigor!!!!!!!!


414 posted on 03/23/2006 10:59:14 PM PST by stone fortress
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To: lilmamma18

Do you drive an automobile?....DUH!!!! UHHHHH!!?!!! Do you breathe in the toxic chemicals of the man-made materials in your car...home...public stores etc? +Do you have wall to wall carpeting? House...New...Old? Do you live among trees and other pollin producing plants? Are your cupboards ( and other FAKE wood products) ALL wood or do they have fiber board that contain formaldehyde (formalin)...Gee...even dust, pets....I would just love to hear how clean and pure you are...and you daughter's only problem is your husband? You may have something to do with it as well!


415 posted on 03/23/2006 11:23:51 PM PST by stone fortress
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To: Mears

RIGT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


416 posted on 03/23/2006 11:30:17 PM PST by stone fortress
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To: Mears

Ha! Ha! I should learn how to spell, I'll try again...RIGHT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


417 posted on 03/23/2006 11:31:43 PM PST by stone fortress
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To: Hardastarboard

OLD Canned NUTS...Rancid as well.


418 posted on 03/24/2006 1:01:26 AM PST by stone fortress
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To: SheLion; The Foolkiller; Mears; lilmamma18
lilmamma18
Member since May 9, 2005

Two posts, two, in 10 1/2 months on FR. One the first day she registered and this one. Check out the first one, it's practically a book!

419 posted on 03/24/2006 3:26:17 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: metesky

She is either a heavy drinker or is deficient in the mental department. Looks like a plea for attention, right?


420 posted on 03/24/2006 3:46:14 AM PST by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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